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Local & National Mission Partners
Union Gospel Mission is a local Christian organization supported by a unity of churches and dedicated to providing love, hope, respect, and a new beginning for the homeless. Each day the Mission provides services for over 200 homeless men, women and children. Because they believe that a basic change of heart is necessary for life, they stress the spiritual message of the mission. Volunteers are vital to their success. Information on volunteering may be obtained by calling 817 332-2922. Check out their web site for more information.
H.O.P.E. Farm disciples inner-city boys beginning at 5-7 years of age. H.O.P.E. Farm gives them an opportunity to experience the benefits of a Christian environment, with respect, love and mutual concern. The following are potential volunteer opportunities: tutoring, assisting with publishing newsletter/brochure, teaching computer skills to staff/students, painting, facility repairs, and helping in various ways with the Fall Festival (October or November). To learn about volunteer opportunities, call H.O.P.E. Farm at (817) 926-9116. Read about the H.O.P.E Farm Ministry here.
Ekklesia Christian School is St. Paul's sister school in Fort Worth, located at 1200 Bessie St. It is an outreach of the World Missionary Baptist Church and its pastor, Howard Caver, and was founded in the mid 1990's in partnership with St. Paul and several other Fort Worth churches. Ekklesia's purpose is to provide an excellent Christian education for students of all races who would not normally be able to afford it. They are building a strong community and a better Fort Worth by providing a Christian, moral, and academic foundation for their students. Students are taught the saving grace of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and are all expected to participate in worship and to grow in their knowledge of the Bible and God's will for their lives. It is the fervent desire of both faculty and parents that all graduates will know how to integrate their Christian values and learned skills into all facets of their lives. Read more about Ekklesia here.
St. Paul has sent work crews, both to the New Orleans area, and now to Port Arthur. The devastation they have witnessed is extensive and overwhelming. Some estimate the recovery time to take up to 15 or 20 years!
There are many ways to join in this outreach! You can contribute with gifts of time and physical work, with your financial gifts, and with your offerings of prayer! See pictures and read one member's testimony from the May 2008 trip here. Contact Wendy at 817-332-2281.
Lutheran Braille Workers Since opening at St. Paul our Braille center has been shipping scripture around the world. From January - April 2008, 137 + volunteers have produced 464 volumes of scripture shipped to 17 countries. We would love to have every member be a part of this amazing missionary opportunity. We had a representative from headquarters in California visit our center this week (May 2008). He mentioned the urgent need for the Braille and how they have had to back order so many books because of the difficulty in meeting demand. The fields are ripe for harvest (John 4:35)!!
Click here to read more about this vital ministry and to see a schedule of groups currently meeting. Please call Arla Richter (817-292-0144) for additional information about joining an existing group or forming a new group.
International Mission Partners:
For a flyer of the 2008 mission trip, click here.To see pictures from the 2007 trip, click here. To find out how to get involved in the trip for 2008, contact Julie Wallace.
Mission India The government of India no longer allows traditional Western missionaries into the country. Consequently, India’s own Christians have now assumed the responsibility for mission work in their nation. Mission India’s goal is to assist Indian “harvest workers” who are being used by the Lord to make disciples. As the number of disciples increases in a given area of the country, they produce clusters that first take the shape of prayer groups, then house churches, and eventually, reproducing churches.
St. Paul currently sponsors ten church planters through Mission India. To find out more about what you can do, e-mail info@missionindia.org or call toll free: 877-644-6342,. For more information, log onto their website: http://www.missionindia.org/.
Murray and Sheryl Greenwood (serving as missionaries in Ecuador) Murray is an experienced Board Certified Pediatrician and honor graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, dedicated to teaching others to accurately understand and apply the Scriptures. His wife Sheryl is a Physician Assistant, Certified Childbirth Educator, & experienced Bible study leader. Their three children are Tabitha (age 13), Elizabeth (age 11), and John Michael (age 9).
Murray is using his respected pediatric medical expertise and seminary degree in Bible teaching to communicate Biblical essentials to the people of Ecuador. We pray God will use them strategically to train up leaders there who will be used by God to reach, teach, and train many others both in Latin America and in difficult-to-reach places around the world. The Greenwood family is faithfully following God’s call to minister to these people, despite the risk involved for themselves. Click hereto learn more about this amazing ministry!
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Refugee Ministries Mission Statement Care for those less fortunate who have been placed among us. Help others to achieve self-sufficiency. Remember Christ is at the center of our ministry. Who are Refugees? "In countries around the world, there are people who know they are not safe because of their politics, religion, race or ethnic community. Having lost his human rights and with no hope of survival, the refugee has fled his homeland in hope of find a better life."
Sudanese Ministry: The primary work of this ministry has been transfered to Peace Lutheran Church in Hurst, TX.
Please contact Wichieng Wetnyangran at Peace. (817) 284-1677
.Click hereto see pictures of God's hand at work in Sudan.
The Podgores were recently serving in Malawi, Africa. Read Ione's week four letter here:
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Stephen Bichiok News from the mission field - a letter from Stephen Bichiok, former Sudanese elder at St. Paul now working in social welfare for the government of South Sudan:
You can e-mail Stephen here.
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